Presentation: A summary of a presentation given before the AIS NSW ICT Integrators Conference 2011...

ICT Integrators Presentation by Daniel Wells is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License.

Photoshop is a fantastic program to create visuals, situations and visual contexts.

These characters, templates and visual contexts can then be used with IWBs.

Putting these visuals together to create narratives where students can role play a variety of characters and explore situations.

By using the functionally in IWBs to support narratives within virtual worlds you can create hyperlinks within the document to differentiate activities for students with varied abilities. Also you can hide information off screen until you wish to reveal it.

Creating objects that can be moved around a page to help with activities dealing with classification and explanation. The images on the virtual noticeboard can be resized and moved. The television contains a hyperlink to a YouTube which will help the students formulate their answer.

When a number of the functions are combined together the potential for creating engaging resources are limitless. The resource above demonstrates ways that you can create dynamic classroom discussions by using resizable/movable characters.

Activities where the teacher provides students with visual clues to solve problems. The movable words correlate with the visuals to help students piece together how a series of events may have taken place.

Transferring these activities into Adobe Acrobat allows for students to use functions like the Record Audio Comment tool. Where they can give a guided tour of an art exhibition or create conversations between characters. The painting of the Weeping woman by Picasso can be hyperlinked to an external website and his cartoon character portrait picture can be hyperlinked internally to another page in the digital booklet.

Working on images with the Sticky Note tool can allow students to locate a number of different objects within a space and place their answers at the correct location.

Creating templates that can be used with OneNote is a good way to have students engage with digital worksheets. They are able to type their responses onto the document and then email their answers immediately to the teacher.